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New direction for Minota Hagey
VeloCity project redevelops campus residence as an incubator for entrepreneurial innovation
Though the smallest student residence on UW campus, Minota Hagey is headed for one of the biggest ideological makeovers this coming summer, as the
VeloCity project introduces an industry-specific “living-learning” environment to UW — the first of its kind on campus, and perhaps in all of North America.
Maggie Clark
editor-in-chief
Despite the impressive display of construc-
tion teams across University of Waterloo
property in the past year, students might be
surprised to learn that one of the biggest
campus transformations won’t require any
newly broken ground at all — not literally,
at least.
Yet it could be argued that VeloCity, an
ambitious entrepreneurial project spear-
headed by Sean Van Koughnett, manager
of the Media & Mobility Network Project,
breaks plenty of new ground where sheer
innovation is concerned.
“There is nothing we’ve come across that
is quite like it,” said Van Koughnett. “There
are a handful of living-learning communities
in the U.S. that focus on entrepreneurship,
and a few that slant towards technology or
innovation. But there are none that we are
aware of that focus on a specific industry,
[like] mobile communications, web and new
media.”
VeloCity, described by Van Koughnett as
an “ incubator” for technological innovation,
aims to fill this perceived niche. Taking as its
staging ground the Minota Hagey building,
presently an on-campus residence that houses
up to 72 upper-year students, the project will
focus entry requirements to students who
have “an entrepreneurial bent, great ideas,
and knowledge or experience in mobile
communications.” By placing young students
of comparable ambitions in the same living
and learning environment, providing them
with communal workshops, resources, and
opportunities for collaboration, VeloCity
aims to foster the sort of innovation that
will, according to Van Koughnett, “show-
case the talent and skill of [UW] students ...
strengthen UW’s reputation ... [and] solidify
[UW’s] standing as a place for the ‘leaders
of tomorrow.’”
Nor does this collaborative spirit end
with student-to-student initiatives, as Van
Koughnett is keen to see VeloCity develop
stronger relationships between the student
talent pool and ready local businesses.
“Partners will provide their technology and
expertise, and in return they’ll have the oppor-
tunity to meet some top students, potentially
test out some of their ideas and technology,
and associate their brand with UW and in-
novation,” said Van Koughnett, adding that
“not all partners will be commercial entities.
For instance the Accelerator Centre [is] going
to make available to VeloCity residents the
courses and workshops that are geared toward
start-ups in the Accelerator Centre.”
Van Koughnett went on to state that his
proposal received a “unanimously enthusi-
astic response” from the various levels of
UW administration he engaged throughout
the project’s relatively short gestation period
(conceived only this past summer). These
parties included the UW housing depart-
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ment, faculty deans, students, professors, and
“corporate contacts” within the community.
Van Koughnett continues to work closely with
two UW students in particular, Gaurav Jain
and Kunal Gupta, throughout the project’s
continued development.
Gupta — a fourth year software engineer
at UW — quickly echoed Van Koughnett’s
enthusiasm for VeloCity:
“Challenging students to think outside the
norm is something UW needs to continue to
do,” said Gupta. “First through academics, then
through co-op, and now through allowing students
to be entrepreneurs ‘in their dorm rooms.’”
Gupta is also founder and board chair of
the group Impact, self-described as “Canada’s
largest ltudent-lun lntrepreneurship lrga-
nization.” Impact will be working with the
VeloCity project throughout its initial student
selection process, with residence applications
being accepted as of January 7, 2008.
That first application window ends on
January 31, with VeloCity offering contracts
for a minimum of four months. According to
Angela Freeman, Minota Hagey don, the tradi-
tion of two residence dons will continue into
VeloCity’s launch, with both dons remaining
unassociated with the entrepreneurial project
so as not to introduce conflicts of interest into
the community. More information about the
application process will soon be released on
the project website, velocity.uwaterloo.ca.
And yet despite the brevity of the project’s
development, there is little doubt that the culture
maggie clark
of media communications already resonates
deeply in the UW community. Just this past
fall, the Media & Mobility Network Project,
which “aims to transform the communications
technology environment on campus, starting
with the student residence environment,” trialed
“full-screen broadcast television to student
computers.” Van Koughnett also has strong
convictions that by the end of 2008 all of the
student residences will have “gone wifi.”
The telecommunications mentality even ex-
tends into the surrounding community, with Wa-
terloo being titled the world’s “Top Intelligent
Community of 2007” by the Intelligent Com-
munities Forum, which made its selection by
focusing on such characteristics as community
broadband communications development,and
similar technological innovations.
On a more practical level, with Minota
Hagey already renewed by a recent renovation
of kitchen facilities, no drastic measures will
have to be taken to prepare the residence for
its first wave of student entrepreneurs in Fall
2008 — though renovations will be continu-
ing throughout Spring 2008.
“Minota Hagey is a manageable size,” said
Van Koughnett. “It has great common areas
that can be developed into collaborative space,
device lab and meeting rooms. The common
areas will be renovated over the summer and
when finished it will definitely look and feel
like no other residence.”
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Something keeping you up at night?
See page 10
Delayed decision on environmental reserve
Margaret Clark
assistant editor-in-chief
On sports day in Conestoga Mall,
throngs of children signed up for mi-
nor league teams — the overall num-
bers growing, studies say, much faster
than previously predicted. Meanwhile,
according to city councillor Mark
Whaley, Waterloo West “cries out for
a library,” among other recreational
infrastructure to meet the population
boom. And off Westmount Road, by
Columbia Lake, a parcel of university
land where corn is now grown hangs
in the balance.
The connection lies in a recent
Waterloo city council decision to
delay accepting an addendum that,
if passed, would allow for com-
munity soccer fields to be built on
UW’s environmental reserve. The
addendum, which targets 23 acres
of the north campus reserve pres-
ently used for agricultural needs,


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modifies a 2003 class environmental
assessment of the region — an
assessment (EA) which in turn
identified improving water quality
and preserving wildlife as higher
priorities for enhancing the land
than recreational development.
If this sounds complicated, it’s
because it is. The deal also works
hand-in-hand with a larger partner-
ship between UW, the city of Wa-
terloo, the YMCA and local library
system, to develop a comprehensive
set of recreational infrastructure on
two parcels of university land, and
which would serve the rapidly grow-
ing population of Waterloo West.
With a price tag of some 30 million,
a planning time span of 18 months
already, and almost 1,000 pages of
relevant material for city council to sift
through, the decision to delay accep-
tance was considered wise by all.
“I felt it was imperative that we get
this deal right,” Whaley explained. “The
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recent municipal election saw three
incumbent members beaten by people
with a pro-environment stance, so we
have a new council with a heightened
interest in the project. This new council
is also wise enough to know they need
more time to get their heads around the
project. My decision to delay was out
of respect for the community and all
the business partners involved.”
According to Whaley, in the in-
terest of ensuring that “all partners
are celebrated and respected in the
decision-making process,” the city is
also going to be meeting again with
all business partners, including UW,
in the next few weeks.
Councillor Karen Scian added
that one big challenge for the city
was accommodating the need for
functional green spaces and the
limitations of functional boundar-
ies. “We have to be smart, creative
and think about the future,” she
said, adding that in relation to UW,
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“Our goal is partnership — we’re
here for each other. We would be
nowhere without UW, and they
would be nowhere without us.”
But in regard to tackling these
challenges, many feel that not
enough attention has been given to
alternatives. “Our priorities should
be retrofitting and maintaining
existing facilities and operations,”
council delegate Sharon Woodley
told The Waterloo Chronicle,
“not building large new areas of
infrastructure that require the use
of more resources, especially water
resources.”
UW student Amber Gebhardt,
who also attended the February 19
council meeting where the addendum
was discussed, added that she felt the
university and city had seized upon
the UW environmental reserve simply
because the opportunity was there,
instead of considering alternative
sites for recreational development.
Simona Cherler
“The process,” she said, “is all back-
wards. They should be looking at all
their options and then making an
informed decision.”
If the addendum passes, the overall
estimation of the sports fields’ cost will
jump from $1.8 million to $3.4 million,
with the additional costs financing,
among other things, environmental
mitigation measures to counteract
the negative effects of maintaining
sports fields. (Meanwhile, the 2003
Class EA recommended restoring
this land to “old field meadow” for
the maintenance and diversification
of existing wildlife.) These measures
include a living buffer between the
sports fields and waterways, but ac-
cording to Gebhardt, one delegate in
attendance asked how sports fields
can at all provide the same measure
of ecological diversity as a restored
old field meadow system.
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Continued from cover
The 2003 Class EA was founded heavily upon
the UW North Campus Master Plan, a guiding
document forwarded by the university senate and
board in 1992. A quote from the plan even heads
the EA, stating that “overall the development of
the North Campus will bring environmental issues
to the fore and foster better links to the rest of the
campus and to the surrounding community.”
But while the EA ranked “Expanding Existing
Sports Fields” as “-21” on a scale of how well dif-
ferent management opportunities addressed top
priorities for the reserve, the addendum places the
development of soccer fields as a top priority unto
itself. Denise McGoldrick, the city of Waterloo
environmental project manager, attributes this
to the changing demands of Waterloo’s growing
population. “The difference between 2003 and
now,” she explained, “was that the original assess-
ment never identified possible city needs.”
Her comment is contextualized by the
“Needs Assessment Study for Outside Recre-
ational Opportunities,” which states that school
soccer fields have neither the appropriate size,
lighting conditions nor proper irrigation to meet
the needs of interested sports groups.
Councillor Whaley questioned the timing of
the study’s introduction, being presented as it
was just before discussion on the EA adden-
dum, but Prof. Paul Eagles of WATGreen has
bigger questions about the changing priorities.
Specifically, he wonders how this development
benefits the students of UW or broadens the
university’s research opportunities.
“I asked the city to withdraw the request
for soccer fields,” he said, “and replace it with
something more fitting with the aims of the
UW Master Plan.” Eagles went on to add that
the land is already used informally by professors
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he felt this usage was much more reasonable
than taking students to off-campus sites for
their research projects.
Asked how students would benefit from the
deal, councillor Scian said that the new sports
fields would meet the demands of the many
young families in the university community.
UW vice-president Academic & Provost Amit
Chakma concurred, stating that the deal “helps
in building a community next to the Columbia
Lake Townhouses, where there are a lot of grad
students with young families.”
However, when Gebhardt asked in council
as to how students would benefit from the new
facilities, she was told that students would not
have free access to the facilities; they would
have to pay for the use of lands still ostensibly
owned by the university.
In accordance to WATGreen’s official stance
on the EA addendum — namely, that it does
not feel the soccer field development project
is the best use of the land — Eagles recently
released a document analyzing the existing michael l. davenport
policy plan in regards to the objectives laid out Lonely reeds watch over the currently empty field on UW’s north campus.
by the UW Master Plan. His analysis highlights
21 instances in which he feels the Class EA He further references a WATGreen proposal In light of last term’s student outcry over the
addendum — both on paper and in process for alternative development strategies; accord- university decision to kill the beavers by Ron Edyt
— deviates from the objectives of that docu- ing to Eagles the policy — which emphasizes Village without consulting with interested groups
ment. He especially questions the lack of proper teaching opportunities, wildlife preservation and that could have used the problem to further en-
university consultation with students and staff, public education — was accepted unanimously gage and educate students, the matter of the UW
and also whether the sports fields really benefit by the biology, AHS and ERS faculties, but has environmental reserve presents the campus with
the city in the long term either. since not been embraced by higher levels of the a striking measure of déjà vu. Councillor Whaley
“This whole project has been badly man- university administration. spoke of the city council’s desire to celebrate and
aged; the council should have introduced a city- When asked about WATGreen’s consultation respect all the partnerships involved in the recre-
wide demand study encompassing all possible concerns, Chakma said, “We can always look back ational development plan; the lingering question
recreational and tourism needs for the region, and say we didn’t consult someone; we can never is whether the same can be said about UW and its
instead of just picking one — the soccer fields have enough consultation. But we have appropri- own, equally diverse community membership.
— because an opportunity to enhance their ate government structures in place and our senate
partnership with UW arose.” and board were well-appraised of this issue.” mclark@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Watchdog, drudge isn’t
A fter sustaining a complete media
blackout on Prince Harry’s deployment
to Afghanistan for ten whole weeks,
mainstream British media was surprisingly
dignified about the American blog leak that
sent their young monarch home.
Instead of criticizing Matt Drudge, journal-
ist-blogger of the Drudge Report, for placing
Harry in greater immediate danger with his
February 27, front page web story, the BBC’s
world news editor, Jon Williams, immediately set
about explaining the media blackout agreement
to readers, while Canadian media like the CBC
and CTV followed the British lead in reporting
more on the quality of Harry’s homecoming
— his disappointment, Prince Charles’ pride,
and hopes for the future — than any ill will
toward the alternative press.
And if the comments page in response to Jon
Williams’ address is any indication, the majority
of readers agree with the BBC’s decision to
participate in a wide-spread media blackout (at
the British government’s behest) in exchange for
media access to Harry before, during, and after
his Afghanistan deployment. To me the argument
for such an agreement seems especially sound:
Prince Harry is a British icon, so for him to serve
without the benefit of such a blackout would make
both him and his companions more prominent
targets to opposing Taliban forces.
Reporting on Harry’s military involvement
therefore compromises his safety, as well as the
safety of those around him, and denies him the
ability to pursue a personal dream — namely,
to become a professional soldier — on account
of a birthright over which he had no control.
A
February 2008 poll conducted by
Environics Research for the Simons
Foundation and the Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation (CBC) found that one in
six respondents would give up their vote in the
next Canadian federal election in exchange for
a vote in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
There are frequent front page items about the
election in our national papers and everyone
seems to have their own opinion on who the
next president should be.
This all came to mind when Canada managed
to squeeze its way into the US election agenda.
It started when Barack Obama and Hillary
Clinton, the two contenders for the Democratic
Party’s presidential nomination, both pledged to
re-open the North America Free Trade Agree-
ment (NAFTA) within the first six months of
their term. Various American manufacturing
unions have blamed NAFTA for a loss of jobs;
in states like Ohio and Michigan, which have
suffered heavily from the economic shift away
from domestic manufacturing, anti-NAFTA
rhetoric plays well.
As the United States is Canada’s largest trade
partner, our government found the topic hard to
resist. During Question Period on February 29,
Harper said “[if] any American government ever
chose to make the mistake of opening [NAFTA],
we would have some things we would want to talk
about as well.” This is more than just an empty
threat; although the United States is clearly the
dominant economic force in the partnership,
Canada is America’s largest exporter of crude
oil, pumping even more than even Saudi Arabia.
In turn, America receives nearly 100 per cent
of Canada’s crude oil exports, all without taxes
and duties. Considering that David Emerson, the
Minister of International Trade, had suggested
on February 28 that reopening NAFTA would
throw into jeopardy this privileged relationship,
Breaking the British media blackout over Prince Harry
was not a positive use of citizen journalism
One commenter on the Williams address even
remarks that military spouses are not always told
where their partners are being deployed; why
should Prince Harry and his companions be any
different? Is the human risk and reduced quality
of life truly worth the killer headline?
Mainstream British media said no. But the
more troubling answer for me is that of Matt
Drudge himself, whom noted media critic Keith
Olbermann once called an “idiot with a modem.”
Drudge has yet to justify just why he decided to
publish what he did, leaving many to speculate
that greed and sensationalism were his primary
motivations. Considering that he first rose to fame
with his notorious leak of the Clinton-Lewinski
scandal, such allegations aren’t unreasonable.
Yet sadly, the Washington Telegraph recently
titled Drudge the “world’s most powerful
journalist.” If this is true, not even mainstream
media’s dignified response to the information
leak — which was committed by Drudge with
full knowledge of the British media blackout
— can prevent the stain his actions leave on
citizen journalism as a whole.
Ah yes, citizen journalism again. Well, why
not? You know we live in an age of pronounced
technological allegiances — where our eager
purchase of iPods, Wii-motes, and Blackberries,
in conjunction with our avid use of YouTube,
Facebook, online RPGs, and similar internet
constructs, reflects a social conviction that speed,
entertainment, and accessibility are “right” and
“good” paths for personal development. Yet
while all this technology has been incredibly
empowering, the liberated forms of citizen jour-
nalism it also enables — from individual blogs
NAFTA needs a Makeover
the U.S. has its ever important strategic interests
at risk here.
The political intrigue is further thickened by
a recently leaked federal government memo that
says that a senior member of Obama’s campaign
met with a Canadian government representative
and assured them that despite his anti-NAFTA
One in six people would
give up their vote in the
next Canadian federal
election in exchange for
a vote in the 2008 U.S.
presidential election.
campaigning, the agreement would not be
reopened. Clinton’s camp has jumped on the
issue, dubbing it “NAFTAgate” in an attempt
to portray Obama as a cynical politician. For
his part, Obama at first denied that a meeting
even took place before later admitting it was a
possibility, although he wasn’t aware of it.
Both the Liberals and the NDP have ac-
cused the Conservatives of intentionally trying
to discredit the Democrats in order to help the
Republican Party. Liberal foreign affairs critic
Bob Rae recently posted on his blog that “[the
Conservatives] will do what is necessary to
help Republicans. They’re a nasty, unprincipled
bunch, who are incompetent to boot.” John
McCain, for his part, has said he will not change
NAFTA. However, renegotiating certain aspects
could actually be very beneficial for Canada.
Based on neoclassical economic indicators
like GDP and employment, NAFTA has been a
good thing for all countries involved. As for the
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to collective internet forums, to our more active
roles as newspaper commentators — come with
responsibilities too.
Specifically, if anyone has the ability to play
watchdog to the mainstream media — a collective
itself meant to serve as a watchdog for political
and social development — it’s the citizenry. It’s
you. And while this is especially true for many
other parts of the world — China, Taiwan, and
Russia, for instance, where the government has a
great deal of control over mainstream media — it
is also true right here in Canada, where extreme
examples of corporate media monopolization
make the need for healthy, home-grown alterna-
tives all the more pressing.
And the ethics are there, absolutely. So many
citizen journalists pride themselves on adhering to
Canadian journalistic standards — especially when
calling mainstream organizations to task for their
own failings in this regard. And even without ap-
pealing to such journalistic standards the kinds of
information disseminated on video websites — like
cellphone footage of police brutality with tasers,
or clips of Iraqi soldiers throwing a puppy off a
cliff — often promote the very social awareness
and community discourse to which institutional
journalism always aspires. But when bloggers like
Drudge can so readily gain the most prominence
for issues like this reckless editorial choice — issues,
that is, which reflect no convincing journalistic
ethic — how can citizens as a whole maintain the
ethical high ground? And without you fulfilling
those much-needed media watchdog roles, just
who will be left to watch the watchers?
editor@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
oft-repeated claims of manufacturing contrac-
tion resulting from the agreement, that trend was
already happening by the time it was signed in
1994. Although NAFTA accelerated it to some
degree, the larger movement towards a global-
ized economy also plays a large part. That said,
there are some very real reasons that Canadians
should want NAFTA renegotiated.
The Chapter 11 clause allows private com-
panies to sue governments if their regulations,
subsidies or financial aid disadvantages the
company. For instance, an American com-
pany introduced a gasoline additive called
MMT to Canada. When Canada deemed the
chemical unsafe, the American company sued
the government for $201 million. Although
the government eventually settled for $13
million, it’s a very dangerous situation when
our sovereignty can be so easily trumped by
corporate interests.
Another dangerous flaw with NAFTA is
the manner in which it commoditizes things:
if something is sold once, it is then bound by
the rules of free trade. This is worrisome in
regards to our vast supplies of fresh water,
which have so far stayed off the market.
On a macroeconomic basis, free trade with
the United States and Mexico has been advanta-
geous for Canada. However, as disputes such
as the ongoing softwood lumber debate make
clear, it is not always a smooth road. Ironically
enough, renegotiating parts of NAFTA to allow
greater government autonomy would actually be
a good thing, despite the worried talk from our
capital. It’s time to reconsider whether it’s really
in our best interests to sacrifice government
regulatory power for economic gain.
With files from the Globe and Mail, the CBC,
Salon Magazine, Huffingtonpost.com, and the Na-
tional Post.
ghalpern@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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sai kit lo resigns
Jeff Henry discusses the coming hard work with
fellow Feds executive Renjie Butalid in the wake of
vice-president internal Sai Kit Lo’s resignation.
Margaret Clark
assistant editor-in-chief
sai Kit lo resigned from his position as vice-
president internal for the federation of students
on Wednesday february 7. a soft-spoken indi-
vidual, his demeanour stands in striking contrast
to the heated and often antagonistic controversy
his time in office prompted among students.
The latest crisis, emerging in little over a week,
spilled onto internet forums like facebook and
left lo at one point fearing for his physical
safety. “everyone’s very angry at me,” he told
Imprint on Monday. “i almost expect someone
to come up and punch me on campus.”
The critical issue arose from the Women’s
centre’s request to show The Vagina Monologues
in the Great hall. vice-president internal (vpi)
is an executive position that gave lo, among
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other things, the responsibility of approving
the venues campus clubs use for their events,
so the decision to accept or turn down this
application lay with him.
he stated that because the show features
sexually explicit content and the Great hall is a
public place, he could not approve the Women’s
centre’s request. “While i have no problem with
the show being shown in closed spaces like the
multipurpose room or Bomber,” he explained, “i
have an obligation to protect students, staff and
their families from that kind of environment in a
public setting.” lo added that he fully supports
the positive political messages of the show, citing
those elements pertaining to women’s rights and
promoting an end to violence against women as
being very important messages.
finding nothing in the ontario human rights
or canadian criminal code to support lo’s
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argument, and much to support the freedom
of expression, the feds Board of directors
overturned lo’s decision on Tuesday, february
6. Kate daley, arts councillor for feds, added that
the feds council still has to deal with the issue.
“When it was clear that the human rights code
would not be violated, lo refused to reconsider
his decision, and continued to publicize it on be-
half of his office and the Federation, in person.”
for this reason, she made a motion for censure
to the feds council later that night.
lo resigned the next morning. “it’s not a
problem if i’m overruled by the board; that
happens,” he said. “But i would have had to
represent that decision afterwards, and i cannot
say something i strongly disagree with. so i
resigned; i decided to stand by my decision.”
See RESIGNATION, page 3
Candidates
under fire
Suzanne Gardner
news editor
candidates for the 2007-2008 federation of
students’ election squared off at a campus media
forum on february 7. The 13 candidates faced a
bombardment of questions from three campus
media outlets. Jonathan fishbein represented
the newly-formed podcast, The O’Fishbein Fac-
tor, Jeff aho was questioning on behalf of The
Iron Warrior, while Michael l. davenport and
suzanne Gardner were there for Imprint.
The forum began with the three senate-at-
large candidates, renjie Butalid, Keith chan
and Mohamed farid, giving opening statements
and taking questions from the media. all three
candidates focused on the university’s sixth
decade plan. chan summed up his concerns,
explaining that “the sixth decade plan is [so]
focused on the future that it’s not fixing the
problems on our campus right now.”
fishbein, himself a former senator, pointedly
asked all candidates if they had ever attended
a senate meeting, to which all three answered
“no.”
Fishbein also asked the first group of
candidates a question he asked all candidates
throughout the forum: “Kittens or butterflies?”
although kittens were losing this poll after the
first group of candidates were questioned, by
the end of the forum, the results were 8-4 for
kittens.
The two candidates for the vice-president
administration and finance (VPAF) position,
del pereira and arthur chan, approached the
microphone next. Both candidates tackled
questions on Bomber, fed hall and auss-
ies, and specifically addressed the question
of why their plans for fed hall are going to
work, when former vpafs plans have failed
in the past. “i have the numbers to back it
up,” said pereira.
Jonah levine and stuart hastings, both
candidates for the vice-president education
(vped) position, followed the vpaf candi-
dates. hastings started his opening statement
by gratefully praising rick Theis, the forum’s
moderator, all of the media representatives and
his opponent levine — a positive mood that
altered slightly when Fishbein prefaced his first
question to the vped candidates:
“We here at The O’Fishbein Factor are refusing
to recognize stuart hastings’ candidacy until he
appears on our show for an interview, so we’ll
only be asking questions of Jonah today.”
hastings did answer questions from the
other two media outlets, however, explain-
ing that when representing students to the
administration, he wants to “sit down at
the table and meet them halfway and that’s
when students and institution can work to-
gether, and we get positive results that fits
everybody’s needs.”
See CANDIDATES, page 5
HARO
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News Editor: Suzanne Gardner
News Assistant: Narmeen Lakhani

Vagina Monologues slams into glass walls

Suzanne Gardner
news editor
The annual presentation of The Vagina Mono-
logues has come up against more than its share
of glass walls this year. Although the Women’s
Centre will host the event on campus next week,
the venues have changed due to controversy.
Event organizer Andrea Dupuis received no-
tice from Federation of Students vice-president
internal Sai Kit Lo that the V-Day performances
of The Vagina Monologues were not allowed to
take place in the SLC’s Great Hall. He believed the
event was “not appropriate to happen in a public
area.” Consequently, the Feds board of directors
called an emergency board meeting on the night
of February 6 to overrule this decision.
body parts.’” He then asked Dupuis for further
clarification on the content of the play.
“This shocked me,” said Dupuis. She pro-
ceeded to explain to Lo that the play is “a series
of real-life monologues with a message of em-
powerment.” Lo counteracted this explanation by
stating: “I think the Great Hall is a living room
for all students to feel comfortable in.”
Dupuis explained that she grew increasingly
upset about Lo’s reasonings when she discovered
that the movies Borat and The Departed, both
rated R by the MPAA, are being shown in the
Great Hall as part of the Student Life Office’s
Warrior Weekends event happening February
9 and 10.
“How is that worse or even on the same plane
as a charity event that’s provocative and evoca-
tive?” asked Dupuis.
She later found out that the room was already
booked at that time. Dupuis contacted Lo again
and attempted to set up a personal meeting
with him to discuss his reasons behind why the
presentation was continually facing obstacles,
yet she received no reply. At this point, Dupuis
decided to no longer go through Lo to receive
her answers because she “didn’t feel comfort-
able talking to him anymore because it was all
100 per cent unclear.”
“I don’t think he was representing us [the
students],” explained Dupuis. “He was repre-
senting himself, and that’s unfortunate.” Dupuis
sent all of her correspondence with Lo to the
Feds vice-president administration and finance
Renjie Butalid to further discuss the issue with
him instead of with Lo.
Dupuis commented on Butalid’s quick atten-
the board decided that “although
Lo was well-intended, this Feds
supports an environment of
free speech, no matter how
controversial, to promote
discussion.”
“I think his heart was in the
right place, but his head was
in the wrong place,” explained
Dupuis. “I just hope this doesn’t
happen again.” Dupuis is cur-
rently looking into holding a free
event in the Great Hall after reading
week, in addition to the three shows
being held from February 13-15 in
the Modern Languages building.
In defence of his actions, Lo said:
“I did what I can that I believe is right

Dupuis decided to call Lo to discuss the
issue and to ask if the event could then be
held in the SLC’s multi-purpose room instead.
Lo once again responded that the event could
not be held in the Great Hall despite Dupuis’
interest in just the room.
At this point Dupuis questioned Lo on
this statement, to which Lo replied: “The
conservative students of the university would
feel uncomfortable with the content of ‘the
When asked about his opinion on the show-
ing of these movies in the Great Hall, Lo said, “I
don’t think it’s right to show movies like Jackass
and Borat. Students shouldn’t have to be exposed
to material like this, but I don’t see how we should
interfere.”
After refusing to let the performance take
place in the Great Hall, Lo did permit Dupuis
to plan the event for the multi-purpose room.
tion to the issue, specifically the board’s decision
to overrule Lo, stating: “I’m 100 per cent satis-
fied with that. Our execs as a whole have come
through for us.”
Butalid explained that since the situation
came to his attention on Monday morning,
he has been working to get the facts straight
and come to a decision. Upon discussion with
the board on Tuesday, Butalid explained that
Christine Ogley
for all students.” On the morning of
February 7, Lo resigned from his posi-
tion as vice-president internal, stating,
“I can’t live with the belief that I’m
contaminating this as remaining an
officer of this organization.”
sgardner@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

Resigned: a question of faith and tolerance in Feds

Continued from cover
Reflections on Lo’s year in office
Asked how Feds felt about Lo’s resignation,
acting president and vice-president Renjie
Butalid said, “We believe it’s unfortunate, but
we believe we will be able to move forward
with ongoing projects. We believe Sai Kit has
done a fair job and wish him the best of luck,
wherever he may end up.”
Feds president Michelle Zakrison returns
next week after the Feds elections conclude,
at which point, the board of directors recon-
venes to decide who will take over the position
of VPI for the rest of the term.
While campaigning for re-election, Feds
policy requires her not to pursue her duties as
president, citing a possible conflict of interest.
Until such a meeting can be arranged, Lo’s du-
ties will be divided among remaining members,
and another board member will step into his
role. This will stretch the Feds’ resources a little
thin, but Butalid is confident it will not greatly
impact their quality.
As for Lo, he looked markedly more relaxed
when Imprint met with him on Wednesday,
February 7. “I feel very relieved now that I’ve
resigned,” said Lo. “I’m only sorry about the
things I didn’t get to finish.”
Lo referred especially to his latest proj-
ect, a club awards system, that he hopes the
next VPI will continue to pursue. “We have
programs to award academic excellence,”
he said, “but what about clubs and services,
especially when they work so hard to create
a sense of community on campus, and for
no real reward?”
Of his work to date with Feds, Lo added
that he felt he had his share of successes.
“When the Tamil Association was being at-
tacked in the media last September, I main-
tained close contact with them and supported
them fully,” said Lo. “I have also lobbied
with the administration about room book-
ings, because they used to not allow musical
instruments being played in classrooms. Now
there are compromises.”
Perhaps most interesting of Lo’s actions
was the introduction of a freedom of ex-
pression motion to the council, opposing
censorship after university administration of open dialogue. grounds under the Ontario Human Rights Code,
expressed concern with students wearing “I think a lot of people are suspicious because and can be described as comment or conduct that
fraternity letters during clubs day. “Some I’m a Christian,” said Lo. “But because I’m a is contrary to the aims of maintaining a supportive,
people have told me already that they will be Christian doesn’t mean I’m against The Vagina respectful and tolerant environment.”
sad to see me go,” said Lo. “And if someone Monologues or the feminist movement in general; The differing viewpoints that arose from The
is sad to see me go then, well, I must have however, because I’m Christian, people should Vagina Monologues issue are especially difficult
done something right.” expect me to be upfront about what I agree and when one considers this latter phrase, “respect-
disagree with. If I use my authority to push a secret ful and tolerant” (emphasis added), which can
A campus divided agenda, or even to have a secret agenda, that would prove pointedly contradictory in practice.
But the concerns raised through this Vagina be contrary to everything I believe.” Respecting the diversity of student life,
Monologues issue and Lo’s pursuant resignation Lo added that there are many Christian clubs and its inclusion of family units, would here
are not so easily summarized. A tremendous on campus, each with a diverse representation of imply intolerance for women’s issues, whereas
sticking point lies in the taboo consideration Christian denominations. “It’s interesting,” he said. tolerance for the expression of all content,
of Lo’s personal beliefs, which many clear- “Christians at this university don’t get together on under the understanding that in today’s
ly believe have the basis of what world the personal is often political, would
motivated his their denomina- preclude respecting that the Great Hall is a
decisions since tion is or isn’t, but public space often frequented by children
entering office. If anything can be learned from what their personal and others who might be intimidated by such
In his post- interests are, just sexual content.
election com- the case of Sai Kit Lo, who like anyone else.” But the controversy extends further. As VPI,
mentary last Feb- As for his personal Lo ultimately measured his decisions by whether
ruary, Imprint’s
never made an effort to hide relationship with they felt legally just to him, and whether they
editor-in-chief, who he was from the student religion, Lo ex- reflected the majority of student interests, as
Tim Alamen- plained: “I feel I’m he interpreted those to be. In the end, he did
ciak, stated quite body, it is that students a sinner, so I focus what he felt was right — which is all that can
frankly of Lo’s on what I can do be asked, perhaps, of anyone.
victory: “When must vote with more to improve myself. The question thus remains: Will the rest of
you’ve got the consideration in the I don’t have time to the student body do the same? Social fears about
support of one judge others.” the intersection of church and state have only
of the larger (and upcoming election. Lo expressed heightened in recent years, but to reflect this
more political) an especial con- fear solely on those in charge ignores personal
fraternities on cern that his deci- responsibility. The student body voted Lo in
campus and all sion regarding The last February, and thereafter only indirectly
the Christians — things definitely tend to go Vagina Monologues would reinforce stereotypes expressed fears about whether or not Lo could
your way.” about what a Christian is. be trusted to separate personal belief from
Thereafter, however, the question of religion “I know many people may see me as the public duty.
remained pointedly — reproachably — unvoiced. embodiment of the obstacle they’re trying to If anything can be learned from the case of
Even as critics made allusions to the personal get rid of, but I really hope they won’t continue Sai Kit Lo, who never made an effort to hide
biases they felt motivated Lo’s decisions, even to feel that way. [The Vagina Monologues issue] was who he was from the student body, it is that
as students disseminated concerns that Lo was not a simple decision; there were many factors, students must vote with more consideration
making certain minority-issues groups on campus and I want people to know that I have no secret in the upcoming election.
uncomfortable with any mention of prayer and agenda to go against what the Women’s Centre They must then follow up that civic duty
repenting, even as general gossip grew saturated is trying to accomplish.” with more honest and straightforward public
with stories of Lo purposely setting obstacles discussion — the kind that holds our repre-
for clubs supporting student issues Lo did not More questions than answers sentatives immediately accountable, which
personally endorse, no one dared to throw the In the case of The Vagina Monologues, UW’s allows them to respond directly to student
question of religion directly into the arena — to Policy 33, on ethical behaviour, refers under sec- concerns and which thus eliminates any room
address it, in other words, in a public forum. Lo tion two to “a ‘poisoned environment’ (or one for a culture of fear and intolerance towards
attributes a general polarization of the student that is intimidating, hostile or offensive).” The anyone in the University of Waterloo.
body and government, and a consequent loss of document further states that such an environment
student confidence in Feds efficiency, to this lack “can be created based on any of the prohibited mclark@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Hagey lecture tackles war, torture, the media

Margaret Clark
arts editor

With one decisive clap of his hands,

american author, journalist and po-
litical critic seymour hersh opened
a students’ colloquium Wednesday,
november 8 on national security
and investigative journalism. ap-
pearing later that day as the 2006
installation in the hagey hall lecture
series, hersh started his university
of Waterloo tour by addressing the
kind of audience he appealed to
long before his work as a journalist
made him famous. “Well, what are
we doing here?” he said, turning to
a student approaching the podium.
“are you going to introduce me?
okay, good.”
hersh proceeded to listen at-
tentively, and with a touch of
amusement, to the solemn litany
of his life achievements to date:
his pulitzer-prize-winning exposé
of the My lai massacre in 1969, his
coverage of the nixon era (from
Watergate to u.s. involvement in
the military coup of democratically-
elected chilean president salvadore
allende), his whistle-blowing on
human rights abuses during the
Gulf War and later in iraq, and
most recently his condemnation
of the u.s. in regards to iran and
the Middle east. now a freelance
journalist whose work features most
often in the New Yorker, hersh is
also the author of seven political
books, including his most recent,
Chain of Command: The Road from
9/11 to Abu Ghraib.
The floor finally his own, Hersh
immediately launched into personal
anecdote, but the audience, packed darren hutz
at hersh’s urging into the front
rows of davis centre’s room 1302, American journalist Seymour Hersh challenges students to consider U.S. foreign policy and the role of the media.
never heard this first story in full;
just as the fierce political critic was projecting,” hersh’s momentary would take hersh, as those about no stranger to being accused of hersh went on to criticize
building to the crux of his tale, he accession to what he called “the present-day world affairs drew a liberal bias in his writing, hersh at government officials like John
was interrupted by a request that mess of video media” fell through. hersh to matters of journalistic one point criticized Mark halperin, Bolton, u.s. ambassador to the
he speak up for the video camera. handing back both microphones professionalism, while other, more ABC News political director, for say- united nations, who hersh said
a terse silence fell over those in and power packs, the award-win- abstract queries about journalism ing that journalists need to practise would only give interviews to those
attendance as a surprised hersh ning journalist firmly shook his elicited his personal views on war personal neutrality (by not voting, willing to write favourable articles
began to haggle over the use of a head and turned back to the audi- and the future of america. it was for instance) in order to do their jobs about their encounters. “pissing
microphone. ence, clearly interested in getting also abundantly clear that while effectively. on the head of my government is
“i’m no fan of the media,” the to the discussion itself. hersh 1, hersh accepted and was willing to “That’s so insulting to my profes- just part of my job,” he explained,
past New York Times journalist technology 0. answer questions from faculty and sion,” said hersh. “We’re profession- adding that journalists cannot be
declared to appreciative laughter changing tactics, hersh opened other staff members in attendance, als. We’re going to have opinions, we afraid to pursue a story simply
as he grudgingly pocketed the re- the floor to questions, a move that he was keenly interested in respond- can’t deny it. and it may be that we’ll because it may affect members of
corder for a portable microphone. immediately renewed the energy ing to as many student questions as choose stories on that basis, but once the government.
But when an apologetic student aid in the room. But there was no he could in the brief hour allotted we’re in a story, we know we have to
held out a second microphone, “for predicting just where a question for just this purpose. put [our personal feelings] aside.” See HERSH, page 6
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Bringing the war home
My father commented at the
time that men of my grandfather’s
generation never lacked a conversa-
tion starter. All that they needed to
ask when they met someone else
their age was, “What did you do
in the war?” and they were set for
the rest of the evening.
The late 1940s saw an unprec-
When veterans return home, their edented boom in housing devel-
war is never truly left on the battle- opment. The government of the
field. I’ve written before about the day sought to avoid the turmoil
contrasts between my grandfather’s that followed the First World War
war experiences and my time at demobilization and embarked on a
university. Both experiences hap- comprehensive demobilization plan
pened when we were roughly the even before the war was close to
same age. While the friends I’ve met finished. Veterans were given all
and the experiences I’ve had at UW sorts of considerations, whether in
will continue to affect me in the education, land purchase or home
future, so too did my grandfather’s ownership.
war experiences. Practically every community
About ten years ago, my family in the country had its veteran’s
and I took the train to Vancouver neighbourhoods, a collection of
with my grandparents. On the way, pre-fabricated housing built quickly
my grandfather met an American to house rapidly growing families.
war veteran. Between Toronto Waterloo’s first veterans’ neigh-
and Vancouver, while the rest of bourhood was developed just north
us enjoyed the scenery, the two of what later became University
veterans refought the Second Avenue and west of King Street.
World War. I had only ever heard This small collection of compact
my grandfather’s war stories, but pre-fabricated houses and town-
never before told in the company houses rang with the voices of
of another veteran. children while their parents went
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about establishing their lives.
The legacy of this development
and those like it were remembered
on Sunday, November 5 when
the National Veterans’ Memorial
was unveiled in the rededicated
Veterans’ Green. Veterans’ Green
is at the corner of Hazel Street
and University Avenue across for
the entrance to Wilfrid Laurier
University.
The Memorial was cited as the
first of its kind to commemorate
those who had returned home
and the legacies that went before
them. Cenotaphs and monuments
like the National War Memorial in
Ottawa commemorate those who
paid the ultimate sacrifice for their
country in the battles they fought.
While those monuments hold a
great deal of significance for the
survivors, they themselves are not
remembered.
Times have changed since the
first memorials of the Great War
were erected in the 1920s and this
is symbolic of our changing at-
titudes towards war and history.
The glorification of war and the
sacrifice of war continue to ring
large, but they are joined by the
legacy of war.
In History 250, one of those
core courses that at first appears
to be itself more symbolic than
practical, we have been examining
the idea of historiography. What
makes history? What is the best
way to commemorate controver-
sial ideas?
The National Veteran’s Memo-
rial goes at least part of the way to
commemorating the peacetime lives
of those who were willing to lay
down their lives for their country,
but were lucky enough to return.
nmoogksoulis@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
Hersh: his start in journalism
Continued from cover
Asked about his most recent topic of
interest, the possibility of U.S. nuclear
action in Iran, Hersh went on to say,
“Yes, it’s Chicken Little — ‘the sky
is falling, the sky is falling!’ And you
know what? I would love to be made
fun of next year as ‘the guy who scared
us all about Iran.’ I would love that,
but the problem is: I believe Bush,
I believe he believes in what he says
[he’s trying to do]... I really do. It
would be easier if I didn’t.”
Regarding his personal history,
Hersh was equally matter-of-fact.
When asked what prompted his ca-
reer in journalism, he replied without
hesitation, “I flunked out of law
school.” A follow-up question about
the lessons he had learned as a young
reporter then revealed a more com-
plete picture of the now 69-year-old
“journalist for life.” Coming from a
lower-middle-class family with no
money, Hersh worked at a liquor store
after law school, where an opportune
run-in with a passing acquaintance
landed him a job as a night shift police
reporter in Chicago. With unexpected
frankness, Hersh stated that the bulk
of the job originally consisted of
“smoking the dope [the police] had
grabbed that night, and watching the
8mm films they confiscated.”
But his perceptions of police
reporting changed dramatically after
his first encounter with dead bodies,
when being the sole reporter on the
scene of a dramatic car crash taught
him his responsibility as a member
of the media. Near the close of the
colloquium, Hersh turned that sense
of responsibility on its head when,
referring to the trend of newspa-
pers becoming “profit-centres,” he
said, “It’s ruinous what’s going on.
…We’ve got to separate the news
from the big corporations.” He also
offered two pieces of advice for
students looking to get involved in
journalism. “Read before you write,”
he said, “and then get the eff out of
the way of the story. It doesn’t need
to be sensational to be good.”
At 8 p.m. that same day, Hersh ap-
peared in the Humanities Theatre to
give a talk entitled “U.S. Foreign Policy
in the Middle East: The Road from
9/11 to Abu Ghraib to Today.” After
FRIDAY, novembeR 10, 2006
three introduction speakers, Hersh
took the stage and proceeded to move
the nearly-full house from laughter
at his witticisms about members of
the U.S. government, to appreciable
silence throughout his brutal account-
ings of war, torture and murder. After
outlining the “Road from 9/11 to
Abu Ghraib” and making his argu-
ment for U.S. President George W.
Bush’s personal responsibility for the
prison torture therein, Hersh went on
to draw parallels between “the kids”
who served as soldiers in Vietnam
and “the kids” now counted among
American combatants in Iraq. Hersh,
who stressed that “the GIs who
[commit human rights abuses] are as
much victims as the Iraqis — it’s the
higher ups who’re really to blame,”
especially highlighted the mental
degradation and homelessness rates
of young American veterans of the
Iraqi war. He made the overall argu-
ment that the costs of the U.S. war in
Iraq, already high in terms of sheer
numbers, could not be measured in
death counts alone.
When Hersh opened the floor to
questions, he was asked to comment
on a series of “what if ” situations
about the future of the Middle East,
to which he responded ultimately with
caution (at one point tugging at his tie
in Rodney-Dangerfield fashion and
quipping, “if I had the answer to that,
I’d play the race tracks tomorrow!”).
Hersh especially stressed that the
U.S. has alienated the Muslim world
in ways with consequences that may
take years or even generations to fully
materialize.
Regarding the role of the media
in politics, a topic that arose in the
last question of the evening, Hersh
received strong applause for stating:
“I strongly believe it is the press’ job
to hold public officials to the highest
possible standard.” In conjunction
with the earlier statement that “our
democracy is a lot more fragile than
we think,” the relevance of Hersh’s
presentations to a Canadian audience
were not easily questioned by those
in attendance at either of the UW-
sponsored events.
mclark@imprint.uwaterloo.ca
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Arts Editor: Margaret Clark
Arts Assistant: Dinh Nguyen

Don’t bother going to the UW Gallery

Director and curator Andrew Hunter explains his vision of bringing art to, and out of, the students themselves
Margaret Clark
arts editor
Go on, admit it: when you think of art, you
think of pictures hanging on a wall. You think
of abstract stone sculptures and lobsters sit-
ting, for some bizarre reason, on telephones.
You think of stuffy artists reclining in their
sprawling lofts, indulging in fine wine and
their inflated senses of self-importance. You
think of elitist organizations — highfalutin
museums, galleries and other self-serving
public spaces — and you hate it.
Well, so does Andrew Hunter.
The funny thing is, Hunter is the newest
director and curator of the UW Gallery,
that “small grey building that nobody knows
about, and nobody visits” in East Campus
Hall. So by all rights one should expect him
to be bemoaning the gallery’s isolation from
campus, and especially the lack of students
frequenting the striking installations lodged
within.
But Hunter is not interested in compelling
unwilling students to frequent the gallery.
Instead, recognizing that the UW Gallery
is meant to serve the whole University of
Waterloo community, and not just the fine
arts faculty, Hunter believes that if students
aren’t going out of the way to interact with
traditional art expressions, it’s high time the
gallery started interacting with the students
on their own territory — and in far less
traditional forms.
Working from the starting premise that
the UW Gallery should have its own, distinct
existence, Hunter has focused on creating
programming that reflects the interests and
character of the UW community as a whole
— a community that by far emphasizes the
somewhat arts-alienated fields of computer
sciences, engineering, physical sciences and
mathematics. Furthermore, Hunter has a dif-
ferent idea of how the gallery should reach
university students — not by lecturing them on
the meaning of art, but by creating dialogues
about the evolution of the term, and allowing
students to take a decisive role in deciding what
art means to them.
Though Hunter only took the job this past
May, his plans are ambitious — and already
well off the ground. “When they hired me,” he
explained, “they told me I could do whatever I
wanted — so I took them literally.”
Last summer Hunter started creating net-
works in the UW community, one of which
has already resulted in an integrated plan for
performance art installations and interactive
teaching projects with the school of architec-
ture in winter term. One such presentation,
by Amos Latteier (whose previous works
include a 500 pound potato battery and a
series of calculator haiku) is a multimedia
performance of animal architecture, if that
gives you any idea of how expansive the
exploration of art can be.
Closer to home, Hunter’s plans include
video and multimedia installations in the
Student Life Centre (SLC), as well as special
events that will seek to unite Waterloo students
with the art already present on campus, in their
programs and even in day-to-day life. Amos Emma TarswEll
Latteier has already been commissioned for “Split-Level Paradise” requires viewers to become part of the art in order to expe-
two other projects to this end. The first is a
science project sculpture incorporating a more
rience it. Similarly, the UW Gallery seeks more accessible arts programming.
heightened sense of aesthetics with topics projects. Enter, alongside this slew of new ultimately lead a temporary online existence,
students may have encountered — functionally presentations, a sense that anything a student the theme-centred work could then be utilized
— in their courses. The second, meanwhile, might study can be, alone or integrated into to create new, permanent installations, ranging
is an audio walking tour (of the kind that can a larger web, a work of art. Enter, as Hunter anywhere from fiction-based response art to
be downloaded to a cell phone) for the trees, himself asserts, the belief that anything we slideshows, to physical exhibitions.
rocks and related, yet regularly overlooked do needs to be an art. Ultimately, Hunter, whose past experiences
cultural installations that can even be found Even the UW Gallery website will not be have given him a wide range of perspectives on
just around the math building and SLC. overlooked in Hunter’s expansive revisioning of art — as curator, as student, as artist — consid-
But wait — this is just the beginning. Enter the gallery: Recognizing how much photo-art ers the UW Gallery “not as a building, but as a
future artists like Dane Watkins, who turns is generated on a daily basis — and almost just program — it’s all about the ideas.”
survey-taking into its own kind of artistic as regularly abandoned or forgotten — Hunter If this is really the case, UW should count
expression (http://eatmydata.co.uk, under intends to create a theme-centred photo project itself very fortunate, because Andrew Hunter
“TargetArt”), and Proboscis, a collective that on the website that will allow students to upload alone has them in spades.
explores the benefits of knowledge-shar- their photos and so become active participants
ing through a series of interactive artistic in the art. Though the photo content would mclark@imprint.uwaterloo.ca

October 20 The Imprint team is October 22

Checkmates Square Dance Club — Trinity Village old chapel Mississippi Heat and Daddy Long Legs –— Starlight
7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. — price not listed listening to... 8 p.m. — $11 in advance
Apocalyptica — “Farewell” October 22
October 20 KWS Storytellers: The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Almost Hip: a tribute to the Tragically Hip — Bomber Beastie Boys — “Hey ladies” — Centre in the Square
9 p.m. — Free admission 19+ 2:30 p.m. – $16
Carrie Underwood —
“He’ll think of me next time”
October 21 October 23
Flax to Fabric Transforming flax into linen Matt Osborne — “50 30 20” Queen: It’s A Kinda Magic — Centre in the Square
demonstrations — Joseph Schneider Haus 8 p.m. — $46.25 to $76.25 depending on seating
6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. — $8 (costumes optional)
Metric — “Monster hospital”
October 22 October 23 – 26
Storytelling: Mary Eileen McClear –— McDougall Cottage My Chemical Romance — Conversations with Other Women — Princess Cinemas
1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. — admission by donation “Cemetery Drive” 9:10 p.m. — $6 at Turnkey Desk

October 22 The Band — “Rag mama rag” October 26

Pulp Fiction — Princess Cinema Hoedown for Hospice — Victoria Park Pavillion
9 p.m. — $6 at Turnkey Desk The Polyphonic Spree — 7 p.m. — $50, proceeds to Hospice of Waterloo Region
“Lithium”